Google ruining Christmas? Get a grip — Since I'm full of the milk of human kindness after a wonderful Christmas, I've been trying to remain calm in the face of all the Google Reader hysteria about shared items and so on — but wiping out on some ice yesterday and landing on my ass …

Is Google Reader Sharing Too Much? — A small privacy debate is igniting over a new sharing feature in Google Reader. A couple weeks ago, Google turned on a new feature in its feed reader that lets you share posts with anyone in your Gmail or Gtalk contact list (assuming you use either of those other Google services as well).

Google Reader needs GPC — Oh, man, is the Google Reader team under attack for its new social networking features. — There's a few ways I could take this. — 1. I could call people idiots for not understanding the meaning of the word “public." — 2. I could call the Google Reader team idiots …

Amazon.com Wraps Up Its 13th Holiday With Best Season Ever — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the 2007 holiday season finished as its best ever, with its busiest day being December 10. On that day, Amazon customers ordered more than 5.4 million items, which is 62.5 items per second.

Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007 — Last year, I ended 2006 with a great (and still pertinent) list of blog posts and articles that I felt were really the best in their class in the area of Internet Marketing. This year, I present you my favorite timeless posts of 2007 …

New wooden earphones from JVC — Rate this News: — Looking for a fancy yet very high quality earphone? Take a look at this wooden version from JVC dubbed the HP-FX500. — JVC says that the use of wood offers enhanced audio quality and the weight of 7.5 grams is pretty nice too.

Update: Like Gaboogie, Foonz Losing Its Voice Too — Earlier this year we wrote about Gaboogie, a web-based conference call service started by Erik Lagerway. The service didn't quite work out, and the company reconfigured its business focus to offering instant group calls from mobiles, and is now called Lypp.

Masterful Web Entrepreneurs Hit a Snag in Miami's Condo Market — Jim Clark and Tom Jermoluk cut a swath through Silicon Valley in the 1990s with companies like Silicon Graphics, Netscape and WebMD. But they are finding that it is a lot harder to maneuver through the real estate market than to master the Internet.